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Davy Jones, 32, runner-up in last year's Indianapolis 500 and a co-winner in last year's 24-Hour race in Le Mans, France, suffered a serious head injury Thursday in a crash during practice at Walt Disney World Speedway. Jones was hurt when his Indy Racing League car hit the wall twice. He was unconscious when taken by helicopter to Orlando Regional Medical Center. He regained consciousness there and his condition was upgraded from critical to serious. Jones was practicing for Saturday's Indy 200. The cause of the crash wasn't immediately known.

Buddy Lazier earned a place in auto racing annals as the first pole-winner of the new Indy Racing League. Lazier, a 28-year-old veteran of 53 Indy-car races, took the top qualifying spot for Saturday's Indy 200, the IRL's inaugural race, by turning a lap of 181.388 m.p.h. on the new Walt Disney World Speedway's one-mile oval. Richie Hearn, the 1995 Toyota-Atlantic Series champion, qualified second but will start in the back after being involved in a crash with veteran Eddie Cheever.